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A Little Local Problem — A Review Of The May Local Elections
The 2006 local elections represent a clear and embarrassing defeat for Labour. The party was relegated to third place in terms of the "estimated national equivalent vote share", (the generally accepted measure of the major parties' local election performance), with only 26% of the vote. It made a net loss of more than three hundred seats, and controls 18 fewer councils than it did before the elections. While this was not, as some had predicted beforehand, Labour's worst-ever local election performance — in fact, the 26% share was the same as in 2004 — it was a very poor one.
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Deloitte / Government Delivery Index
It appears that the British public are continuing to be gloomy about the future of the economy and public services, according to the latest Deloitte/Ipsos Government Delivery Index. Expectations among the public were generally at a historic low in early 2006, and this level of pessimism has broadly been maintained in the months since.
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Attitudes Towards Teenagers And Crime
Some of the key national findings from the Dispatches programme are taken from a survey with 1,001 adults across Great Britain in March 2006. Other findings relating to specific local authority areas relate to analysis of BVPI (Best Value Performance Indicator) data from 2003/04.
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Attitudes To The Scottish Parliament And Devolution
Ipsos was commissioned by the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to assess attitudes towards the Parliament and devolution. The purpose of the research was to obtain a source of information which would help inform the Parliament's public information and participation strategies. The specific objectives of the research were to:
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Ipsos G6 Monitor
Tony Blair's standing compared to leaders of the four other major European nations and the USA is poor, according to Ipsos's latest G6 monitor.
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Deloitte / Government Delivery Index
Two in five British adults (38%) think that the Government's policies will improve the state of Britain's economy in the long-term, while 48% disagree. Fewer are optimistic about the public services, with one in three (32%) thinking that the Government's policies will improve public services, while a majority (55%) disagree with this.
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National Housing Federation Members' Survey
According to a MORI Social Research Institute survey of members conducted for the National Housing Federation, regulatory reform, increasing housing investment and reinforcing sector independence should form the Federation's long-term business priorities.
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Britain Today
Questions about happiness, worries, voting intention, Britain and being British, society, public services, perception of party leaders, sentencing/ punishment for crimes and spiritual beliefs.
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Attitudes Towards Nuclear Energy And Climate Change
As the Government begins its major review on the future of energy, an extensive survey published today (17th January) of the British public's attitudes towards future energy options shows that just over 50% may be prepared to accept new nuclear power stations if it would help to tackle climate change. But few actively prefer the nuclear option over alternatives such as renewable sources and greater energy efficiency. Most people believe that promoting renewable energy sources (78%), and reducing energy use through lifestyle changes and energy efficiency (76%) are better ways of tackling climate change than nuclear power.
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'Choice? What Choice?' Say Patients
Most people aged 40+ (around three in four) are willing to go to either NHS or private hospitals so long as they receive assurances over minimum standards of care, a MORI survey conducted for the Dept of Health, just publicly released, shows. However, awareness among this population group about the much heralded 'patient choice' agenda is currently very low: only four per cent say they know 'a great deal' about patient choice, and 15% 'a fair amount'. Conversely, two in five (41%) say they know absolutely nothing about choice in healthcare, with 39% knowing 'just a little' about it.